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  • Composer:Witold Lutosławski
  • Original title: Melodie ludowe. 12 łatwych utworów na fortepian
  • content: 1. O, my Johnny
    2. Hey, I come from Cracow
    3. There is a path, there is
    4. The little shepherdess
    5. An apple hangs on the apple tree
    6. A river flows from Sieradz
    7. Master Michael
    8. The lime tree in the field
    9. Flirting
    10. The grove
    11.The gander
    12. The Schoolmaster
  • year of completion: 1945
  • instrumentation: piano
  • commission: Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne
  • Duration: 10'23''
  • Genre/form: cycle of miniatures
  • category: instrumental music, works for solo instrument
  • musician: Witold Lutosławski (piano)
  • Producer: Polskie Radio S.A.
  • Production year: 1950
  • quality: low
  • Premiere: Kraków, 22.07.1946, Zbigniew Drzewiecki – piano
  • Discography: "Witold Lutosławski. Complete Works for Piano Solo", Ewa Kupiec – piano, Sony Classical 2013

From as early as in the 1930s Lutosławski experimented with using folk melodies in his own music. At that time he began working on his Kurpie Suite, which may have been inspired by Szymanowski’s and Bartók’s folkloristic works. The composition drafts burned in the Warsaw Uprising period, and the would-be author of the Suite did not return to folk material until 1946. The reason was not so much a desire to return to his pre-war plans, but a desire to take part in the post-war rebuilding of Polish musical life.

There was a huge demand in the musical-education system that had been destroyed during the occupation for new music composed for educational purposes. Well aware of this, Lutosławski wrote pieces for young performers. He used simple folk tunes in them, adding to these a more complex, “spicy” accompaniment. The approach resembled Szymanowski’s and Bartók’s techniques in general, but in its particulars it was Lutosławski’s own invention. This method of working allowed him to compose relatively easily music that was both accessible and sophisticated.

The first of the folk pieces he completed were Folk Melodies for piano. The composer scored some of them for string orchestra; there is also a version he wrote for four violins. The Melodies were soon joined by the Carols, Bucolics, Little Suite and Silesian Triptych. The series was crowned, as it turned out, by the Concerto for Orchestra from 1954 – much larger and more complex than the other compositions, and one of the most important works in the composer’s oeuvre.


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